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I'd be very curious if anyone knows what the Rust team's ambitions are for supporting the full set of Linux-supported platforms? Is this something they aspire t

• jamincan 5y ago
  The rustc compiler uses LLVM, so whatever new architectures LLVM supports, rustc also gets. There are two projects going on right now - rustc_codegen_gcc which adds GCC as a rustc backend, and gcc-rs which adds a rust frontend to GCC. Both have seen considerable progress and support over the past year and are probably the most promising avenue to expanding the architectures that rust can compile to.
• steveklabnik 5y ago
  Not on the relevant team, but I can tell you what I've observed from the outside: There's no specific goal to support every platform Linux supports. We have four tiers of support: 1-3, and then not supported in-tree. The project itself only moves things forward on a given platform if there are people championing that platform's support. If folks want to get Rust in more than just drivers and into the kernel proper, and platform support is an issue, then it's up to them to drive the platform support. For example, aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu only recently gained Tier 1 support, thanks to Arm themselves driving the effort. For the details on what is supported today, and the process to expand that list: https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/rustc/platform-support.html https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/rustc/platform-support.html Here's an example of a contributor adding a new platform at tier 3: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/79608 https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/79608